Sandra Baltensperger

LIFE Fellow since 2026, University of Zurich

I am a PhD student in Psychology at the University of Zurich with a background in linguistics. My research lies at the intersection of language, psychology, and clinical research, with a particular focus on speech production as a behavioral marker of emotional and psychological processes. In her current work, she investigates whether features of speech can reflect emotion regulation and predict treatment response in adolescents with psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. I am also involved in the development and evaluation of virtual reality–based interventions in child and adolescent psychiatry. As a LIFE fellow, I am particularly interested in integrating perspectives from developmental psychology, language science, and computational methods to better understand individual differences in development and mental health.